RUSH: Representative Jerry Nadler, Democrat, New York, was in Boca Raton yesterday, and he said this about Obama being a 20-year member of Reverend Wright's church.
NADLER: There's a guy who is half white, half black, he goes to a Ivy League school, comes to Chicago to have a political career, start a political career. Doesn't know anybody. Gets involved with community organizing. Why? 'Cause that's how you form a base. Now you wait a couple years and -- he's -- the guy's a nut, the guy's a lunatic. But You don't walk out of a church with 8,000 members in your district, you hear what I'm saying? He didn't have the political courage to want to make the statement of walking out.
RUSH: What Congressman Nadler is saying there is, well, he didn't have the political courage to walk out of Wright's church. He went to Chicago to community organize to build a base, he found this church, got 8,000 members, it's in your district, you got this wacko nutcase preacher, but Obama did not have the political courage to want to make the statement of walking out. So a voter says, "Twenty years he was in the church," and Nadler said this.
NADLER: Yeah, 20 years. What does this tell me? It tells me he wasn't terribly politically courageous. Does it tell me he agreed with the reverend in any way? No.
RUSH: No, no, of course it doesn't say he agreed with the reverend. He just didn't have any political courage. He didn't have the guts to walk out. We can still nominate him to run the country for our party. He didn't have the political courage to walk away from Reverend Wright, but that doesn't mean he agreed with him, just didn't have the political courage to walk away, didn't have the guts, did not have the guts to walk away. Do you know what else Nadler said at this thing? They asked him about Russia and Iran and so forth, and Nadler basically said, look, Russia invaded Georgia. Fine, let 'em have it. If Mexico invaded us, that would be a different story, but Iran, don't you think -- he's telling his audience now -- don't you think Iran is a far greater threat to us than the Russians invading Georgia? No political courage. By the way, Congressman Nadler, no political courage, and yet he takes his kids in there, into that church? And here's another question that I have for Congressman Nadler and everybody else. This is Boca Raton, this is a largely Jewish area, and that's why Nadler is down there talking to these Democrats. What are they doing asking about Reverend Wright? What are automatic Obama voters doing asking about Reverend Wright? What do they care? Because we've been told that Reverend Wright is a non-issue, that Reverend Wright is a distraction. Why do those people who are automatic Obama voters, why do they care about Reverend Wright? Here is our montage. This is I think what they -- RNC, McCain -- this is what they should have been playing in Florida and all around the country as often as they could have in this campaign.
WRIGHT (screaming): Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! [snip] Hillary ain't never been called a nigger! [snip] Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: He was riding dirty. [snip] In white America, US of KKKA: black men turning on black men. [snip] I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it. [snip] Not God bless America, God (bleep) America! It's in the Bible. For killing innocent people, God (bleep) America! [snip] (screaming) And now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards!
CONGREGATION: (cheers)
WRIGHT: America's chickensssss are coming home to roost.
RUSH: And that's Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the best the black church has to offer, according to Obama. He chose Reverend Wright. Nadler, you guys are all making a mistake here. Obama chose this guy. Obama wasn't walking the gutters there doing his community organizing and a limousine went by and Reverend Wright said, "Hey, Barry, come join my church." Obama found the church, for whatever reason. Didn't have the moral courage to leave it, but he sure had the guts to take his kids in there and let his kids be exposed to that stuff. A 527 group has put together a Reverend Wright ad. This ad should have been running the last six months.
ANNOUNCER: If you think you could ever vote for Barack Obama, consider this. Obama chose as his spiritual leader this man.
WRIGHT: Not God bless America, God damn America!
ANNOUNCER: He also picked Wright to baptize his children.
WRIGHT: The US of KKKA!
ANNOUNCER: Barack Obama, he chose as a pastor a man who blamed the US for the 9/11 attacks. Does that sound like someone who should be president?
WRIGHT: God damn America!
RUSH: Okay, this ad has been running this weekend. It's a 527 ad, by the way. McCain said long ago that Reverend Wright was off the table. They were afraid in the McCain campaign of being called racist, which they've been called anyway. You know what, Senator McCain, I don't know if even after this, even if he wins, is going to have learned his lesson. You walk across the aisle to meet Democrats and they break your leg. You reach across the aisle to work with Democrats, they break your arm. Baba dooby. Here is Obama. This is Friday afternoon. He's in Des Moines, Iowa.
OBAMA: On the day of the Iowa caucus, my faith in the American people was vindicated, and what you started here in Iowa has swept the nation.
RUSH: Oh. America, was a highly doubtful place, America, we had no faith in America until he ginned the system in Iowa by getting a bunch of people to bus in there that didn't live in Iowa to participate in the caucuses. McCain slammed Obama on this comment all weekend long.
MCCAIN: He said that his primary victory vindicated, vindicated his faith in America. My country's never had to prove anything to me. I've always had faith in it. I haven't been vindicated by anything. I've been humbled and honored to have the great opportunity to serve this nation.
RUSH: Right on, right on, right on, right on. So, he hammered Obama all weekend long on this comment. Let's go back to Michelle Obama. This is February 18th, 2008, Madison, Wisconsin.
MICHELLE: What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback, it is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic, common issues, and it's made me proud.
RUSH: Okay, so Obama's faith in his country vindicated when he won Iowa, and it was Michelle saying she had never been proud of her country until Barack started winning some primary elections, and, of course, the Hawkeye Cauci. Also Michelle Obama in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday said, "He can fix anything with his power and with his will. Barack Obama can fix anything." What has he fixed? What has he fixed, other than possibly an election?
